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The Encyclopedia of Autoimmune Diseases

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  • Series: Facts on File Library of Health & Living
  • Hardcover: 364 pages
  • Publisher: Facts on File; 1 edition (January 1, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 081604340X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0816043408
  • Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 1.1 x 9.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds

 

The newest addition to the Facts On File Library of Health and Living series is The Encyclopedia of Autoimmune Diseases. Like others in the series, it is a stand-alone reference. With “nearly 100 autoimmune diseases . . . affect[ing] up to 22 million Americans–8 percent of the population,” this book is appropriate for both general readers and professionals. More than 300 A-Z entries, voluminous appendixes, and bibliography will guide readers in their search for information.

Entries cover terminology, key physicians and researchers, and specific diseases. Specific disease articles contain a historical and general introduction with subsections on causes, clinical features, diagnosis, complications, treatment (drug and nondrug), and other readings. A separate entry on research on the disease follows, where appropriate. Articles on ethnic, age-related, and other specific factors are included (for example, African Americans with autoimmune diseases, Environment and autoimmune disease). Familiar conditions such as allergies, AIDS, diabetes, and hepatitis are found along with less well-known diseases such as Evans’ syndrome or ocular cicatricial pemphigoid (OCP).

Appendixes list autoimmune diseases, diseases listed by target organs, organizations and help groups, patient research registries, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) investment in research on autoimmune diseases, among others topics. An extensive bibliography and index round out the encyclopedia.

Highly recommended for the academic and public library collection, this book gives unbiased medical information for the general public as well as the family and friends of a disease sufferer. RBB
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

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Not many years ago, the idea of an encyclopedia of autoimmune diseases would have been inconceivable. The reason is not that there were no autoimmune diseases; in fact, they have been with us from time immemorial. It is rather because we were not in the habit of thinking of the autoimmune diseases as a group. The explanation is quite understandable. The autoimmune diseases, which result from the pathological effects of a misguided, self-directed immune response, can affect essentially any site in the body.

There is an autoimmune disease of the skin, brain, heart, liver, lung, kidney, joints, and so forth. The clinical presentation of the disease depends upon its location, and, therefore, it varies greatly from one disease to another. Equally important, the treatment of the different autoimmune diseases falls to different medical specialists, who are usually arranged according to the organ system with which they are concerned. Thus, particular autoimmune diseases are cared for by physicians specializing in dermatology, neurology, cardiology, gastroenterology, nephrology, rheumatology, etc.

There was, in the past, very little reason or incentive for bringing these disparate disorders together into a single category.

A transformation occurred toward the end of the 20th century when medical scientists began to find that there is a remarkable commonality among these diseases. First, the misguided immune response causes, or at least contributes significantly, to the progression of the disease. Our newer knowledge of the immune response, acquired from basic research, has allowed us to understand a great deal more about the factors that normally regulate the immune response and where they might go wrong. We now realize that autoimmunity (an immune response directed to oneself) is actually quite common. This concept violated some of the most basic early tenets of immunology and took some time to be accepted. Although most autoimmune responses are limited and harmless, sometimes an immune response to oneself goes too far and produces the type of injury we recognize as autoimmune disease.

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